An archaeological study of the growth of Manhattan during the colonial period, this book documents the emergence of Manhattan as the center of class-structured capitalist commercialism in the new nation-state.

Surveys of the history of biblical exegesis and, in particular, the history of Apocalypse commentaries rarely fail to allude to Nicholas of Lyra O.F.M. (1270–1349) as the greatest biblical exegete of the fourteenth century.

Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian kings (8th/9th century B.C.), very little was known about the queens, with the exception of semi-mythical Semiramis.

A report on the excavation during the 1950s of an Early Dynastic Temple discovered in the northwestern part of the Religious Quarter of Nippur. The volume includes reports on the structural remains, the burials and the finds, such as pottery, tablets, seals, ornaments and figurines.

First of the final reports related to the current program of research at Nippur, crucial for understanding the Kassite assemblage at Nippur, especially for ceramics. Cuneiform texts allow some suggestions on the occupants of the sequence of houses and their activities. The plates include photographs of all the texts.

Inscriptions on the remains of 128 inscribed clay tablets found at Nippur in south central Iraq turned out to be written in a previously unknown early Neo-Babylonian script dating back to the middle of the eighth century b.c. Includes copies, transliterations, and translations of all the documents, exhaustive glossaries, and comprehensive indices.

This study of two domestic neighbourhoods at Nippur, TA and TB, correlates information from texts found in these houses with architectural modifications to the buildings, and considers the socio-economic circumstances of the occupants.

The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. A

A touching photographic journey, captured in stereoscopic glass plates by one member of a prominent family in the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina, in north-western Greece. Important historical events unfold over the years, and we also see the everyday lives of different ethnic and religious groups. 266 duotones.